Louis L. Picone
Louis L. Picone is the author of The President Is Dead! The Extraordinary Stories of the Presidential Deaths, Final Days, Burials, and Beyond (Skyhorse Publishing, 2016) and Where the Presidents Were Born: The History & Preservation of the Presidential Birthplaces (Schiffer Publishing, 2012). He has served on the board of the Roxbury Historic Trust and is a member of the Authors Guild and Mensa International. In June 2016 Louis spoke at the international conference "U.S. Presidents and Russian Rulers" at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. Louis is currently working on a Masters degree in history at William Paterson University and in October 2016 he was awarded a scholarship grant to attend the prestigious "Region and Nation is American Histories of Race and Slavery" conference at George Washington's Mount Vernon. He currently resides in Roxbury, New Jersey.
Works

The President Is Dead!: The Extraordinary Stories of the Presidential Deaths, Final Days, Burials, and Beyond...
Packed with fun facts and presidential trivia, The President Is Dead! tells you everything you could possibly want to know about how our presidents, from George Washington to Gerald Ford (who was the most recent president to die), met their ends, the circumstances of their deaths, the pomp of their funerals, their public afterlife, and stories of attempted grave robbings, reinterments, and vandalism,conspiracy theories surrounding their deaths, and much more!
The President Is Dead! is filled with never-before-told stories, including a suggestion by one prominent physician to resurrect George Washington from death by transfusing his body with lamb’s blood. You may have heard of a plot to rob Abraham Lincoln’s body from its grave site, but did you know that there was also attempts to steal Benjamin Harrison's and Andrew Jackson’s remains? The book also includes “Vital Death Information,” which prefaces each chapter, and a complete visitor’s guide to each grave site and death-related historical landmark. An “Almost Presidents” section includes chapters on John Hanson (first president under the Articles of Confederation), Sam Houston (former president of the Republic of Texas), David Rice Atchison (president for a day), and Jefferson Davis. Exhaustively researched, The President Is Dead!, is richly layered with colorful facts and entertaining stories about how the presidents have passed.
Where the Presidents Were Born: The History & Preservation of the Presidential Birthplaces
Awards and Recognition
- In June 2016 Louis presented at the international conference "U.S. Presidents and Russian Rulers" at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow.
Press and Media Mentions
- Skyhorse Publishing blog post : "Lifting the Lid: Lenin’s Tomb and American Presidential Funeral Customs"
- January 31, 2017 interview by Rob Anthes in the Hamilton Post "Hamilton native publishes two books about the lives of American presidents"
- January 8, 2017 interview by Jacqueline Cutler in the Newark Star Ledger "Q&A with NJ writer who takes a presidential approach"
- New Yorker Louis Picone tracks Presidents right from the start, with book on all their birthplaces New York Daily News, November 28, 2012
- September 11, 2016 review of The President is Dead! in the New York Post by Sara Stewart "How America’s presidents lived their final moments"